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Leners Patent Ne. 89,512, dated Apfel 27, 1ste.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTER.

The Schedule referred toV in these Letters Patent and making prt of the same.

To all whom it ma/y concern.- e

Be it known that we, EUGENE SLossoN and EDWIN C. SLOSSON, of the towfp of Vienna,rin the countyof Grundy, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Planters; vand we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use our invention, we will proceed to describe it.

'Figure 1 is the elevat. on, and

Figure 2 is the plan of the machine.

Figure 3 represents the plates, and

Figure 4 the slide of the dropping-device.

Figure 5 is the plan ofthe dropping-device.

- Thenature of ourl invention consists-inse arranging the parts of the corn-planter, that the runners would remain always in a horizontal position, or in a position parallel to the surface of the ground, and the pole would not press on the horses neck.

It consists, also, in the arrangement of the dropping-device, as also in' the mode of attaching scraper-s to the machine. Our machine consists of two independent frames,

A A, and B B, connected by iron rods, a a, hooking into loops. l

To the lower frame, A A, runners O C, and boxes Y D D, are axed.

The upper frame, B B, of a triangular shape, is supported in'iront by caster-wheel, E, and in the rear by the covering-wheels F F.

The device to raise or lower the frame A A, and with it the runners, consists in the following:

To the cross-piece G of the frame A A, is hinged an iron flame, H, the upper bar of which is provided with a' roller or rollers h h.

A horizontal iron bar, I, jonrnalled to the frame B B, and operated by hand-lever J, is provided with arms, K K, connected, by short chains, to the crosspiece G ofthe frame A A, and is provided, also, with short arm, l, coupled with the upper bar of the frame EL by a bent bar, M.

A grooved segment, N, is secured to the bar I and lever J, revolving with them, and a chain, O, secured to the lever J, passes over the segment N, and to the forward end of the frame B B, where it passes over pulley P, and is secured to the cross-piece Q of the frame A A.

By movi-ng the lever J to the. front, the frame H is vplaced into more or less vertical position, pressing the i'ront part ofthe frame A A to move down also; and',

.as the whiiiie-tree Betis hinged to the cross-'piece Q, the pulling of the horses brings the front part of the frame A A down alsp, so that the runners O O are kept always in a hotizontal position, or ina position parallel to the ground, at any desired depth. The reverse of the abovedescribed motion is obtained when lever J is operated in au opposite direction.

Our dropping-device consists of two plates, d d', arranged as represented on fig. 3, which, by being partially superposed, one over the other, as on fig. 4,.form two cells, f f, for the kernels.

0am g, pinned to the under side of plate df, closes4 one cell after another alternately, being operated by the slide 1,' operated, in its turn, by the hand-lever T., 'llheslide l, represented on fig..5, consists oftwo arms, one of which, s, opens the cells altemately,.and admits grain into them-from the hopper D, while the other arm, t, is connected with cam g, and operates the same. v

The plate d is provided with a slot where bolt 1* is passing, and, therefore, can be adjusted so as to make the cells smaller or larger. The device operates in the best manner, and never cuts the grain.A

- We attach the Scrapers U U to the bar X, hinged to the rear of the frame B B, and operated by rod Y, hinged to said bar, and connected with foot-lever Z, pinned to the frame B3B, and operated by the foot of the driver.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-= ters Patent, isv l. The easterfwheel E, when applied to the cornpla-nters frame, in the manner substantially as and for thel purposes herein shown'and described.

2. The 'raising and lowering-device, consisting of frame H, barI, arm L, and bar M, as also segment N, chain O, and pulley P, or their equivalents, all arranged and operating substantially as set forth.

3. The dropping-device, consisting of plates d d', cam g, and slide'l, arranged 'and operating as herein described and specified. Y 4. The manner of attaching Scrapers UUto the ma chine, and operating.the same, substantially as set forth. l

EUGENE SLOSSON. EDWIN O. SLOSSON. Witnesses:

A. R. NEWPORT, JOSEPH G. NELSON. 

